Example sentences of "[verb] herself [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 2 | To her annoyance , Ronni found herself watching the long tanned fingers and remembering with a start how they had felt against her flesh . |
| 3 | She found herself envying the easy banter between her cousins and aunt , the argumentative informality of mealtimes , the laughter and bustle and hugs . |
| 4 | Robyn leant against the door to the office and found herself experiencing the old , familiar surge of deep annoyance . |
| 5 | Gradually she found herself breathing the clean , laundered smell of his linen shirt , and the warmer , subtler scent of his skin , with a growing and bewildered delight . |
| 6 | Numb with agony and humiliation , she got undressed like a ghost and went to bed , unable to let herself dwell too deeply on what had happened in case she found herself asking the inevitable question : if I hate Damian Flint , why has he been able to hurt me so deeply ? |
| 7 | For a brief moment , she had seen herself raising the tiny silver gun and pulling the trigger , once and then again , the blood appearing like a diseased flower on Lewis 's soiled shirt . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Teresa finds herself learning the hard way how to survive in Africa and she discovers that its beauty is not without danger . |
| 9 | She did n't voice her thoughts but she immediately saw herself wearing the lime-green dress and the coat with the rose lining . |
| 10 | Today 's new mother may well find herself facing the additional difficulty of coping alone with her new-born infant — whether due to choice or circumstance . |